PEER 2011/10 - Earthquake Engineering for Resilient Communities: 2011 PEER Internship Program Research Report Collection

Editors Heidi Faison and Stephen A. Mahin - Coming Soon

PEER 2011/09 - Calibration of Semi-Stochastic Procedure for Simulating High-Frequency Ground Motions

Jonathan P. Stewart, Emel Seyhan, and Robert W. Graves - Report (4.1 MB)

PEER 2011/08 - Water Supply in regard to Fire Following Earthquake

Charles Scawthorn - Report Coming Soon

Graphic Handout: Fire Following Earthquake: Will water be there for firefighters? (2.9 MB)

PEER 2011/07 - Seismic Risk Management in Urban Areas

Proceedings of a U.S.-Iran-Turkey Seismic Workshop December 14-16, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey - Report (30 MB)

PEER 2011/06 - The Use of Base Isolation Systems to Achieve Complex Seismic Performance Objectives

Troy A. Morgan and Stephen A. Mahin - Report (26 MB)

PEER 2011/05 - Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings Designed by Alternative Means

Task 12 Report for the Tall Buildings Initiative - Report (26 MB)

- Appendices (14 MB)

PEER 2011/04 - Recommended Design Practice for Pile Foundations in Laterally Spreading Ground

Scott A. Ashford, Ross W. Boulanger, and Scott J. Brandenberg - Report (1.5 MB)

PEER 2011/03 - New Ground Motion Selection Procedures and Selected Motions for the PEER Transportation Research Program

Jack W. Baker, Ting Lin, Shrey K. Shahi, and Nirmal Jayaram - Report (4.7 MB)

PEER 2011/02 - A Bayesian Network Methodology for Infrastructure Seismic Risk Assessment and Decision Support

Michelle T. Bensi, Armen Der Kiureghian, and Daniel Straub - Report (3.7 MB)

PEER 2011/01 - Demand Fragility Surfaces for Bridges in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground

Scott J. Brandenberg, Jian Zhang, Pirooz Kashighandi, Yili Huo, and Minxing Zhao - Report (5.7 MB)

PEER 2011/107 - Nonlinear Site Response and Seismic Compression at Vertical Array Strongly Shaken by 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake

Eric Yee, Jonathan P. Stewart, and Kohji Tokimatsu - Report (3.7 MB)

- Appendix A (350 KB, jpg file)

- Appendix B (170 KB)

- Appendix C (150 KB)

- Appendix D (150 KB)

PEER 2011/106 - Self Compacting Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete Composites for Bridge Columns

Pardeep Kumar, Gabriel Jen, William Trono, Marios Panagiotou, and Claudia P. Ostertag - Report (4.5 MB)

PEER 2011/105 - Stochastic Dynamic Analysis of Bridges Subjected to Spatially Varying Ground Motions

Katerina Konakli and Armen Der Kiureghian - Report (2.7 MB)

PEER 2011/104 - Design and Instrumentation of the 2010 E-Defense Four-Story Reinforced Concrete and Post-Tensioned Concrete Buildings

Jointly authored by the Japanese and U.S. Research Teams - Report (7.8 MB)

PEER 2011/103 - In-Situ Monitoring of the Force Output of Fluid Dampers: Experimental Investigation

Dimitrios Konstantinidis, James M. Kelly, and Nicos Makris - Report (5.0 MB)

PEER 2011/102 - Ground-motion prediction equations 1964 - 2010

John Douglas - Published jointly by BRGM - Report (2.5 MB)

PEER 2011/101 - Report of the Eighth Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering

Convened by the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (NIED), NEES Consortium, Inc. - Report (8.2 MB)

PEER 2010/05 - Guidelines for Performance- Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings

Developed by the Tall Buildings Initiative - Report (5 MB)

PEER 2010/04 - Application Guide for the Design of Flexible and Rigid Bus Connections between Substation Equipment Subjected to Earthquakes

Jean-Bernard Dastous and Armen Der Kiureghian - Report (12.5 MB)

PEER 2010/03 - Shear Wave Velocity as a Statistical Function of Standard Penetration Test Resistance and Vertical Effective Stress at Caltrans Bridge Sites

Scott J. Brandenberg, Naresh Bellana, and Thomas Shantz - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2010/02 - Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Ground Motions for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Sanaz Rezaeian and Armen Der Kiureghian - Report (12.5 MB)

PEER 2010/01 - Structural Response and Cost Characterization of Bridge Construction Using Seismic Performance Enhancement Strategies

Ady Aviram, Božidar Stojadinovic, Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos, Kevin R. Mackie - Report (21 MB)

PEER 2010/111 - Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings

Task 7 Report for the Tall Buildings Initiative - Published jointly by the Applied Technology Council - Report (5.7 MB)

PEER 2010/110 - Seismic Performance Assessment and Probabilistic Repair Cost Analysis of Precast Concrete Cladding Systems for Multistory Buildings

Jeffrey P. Hunt, Bozidar Stojadinovic - Report (11.9 MB)

PEER 2010/109 - Report of the Seventh Joint Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaboration on Earthquake Engineering. Held at the E-Defense, Miki, and Shin-Kobe, Japan, September 18–19, 2009

Convened by the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (NIED), NEES Consortium, Inc. - Report (7 MB)

PEER 2010/108 - Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard in California

Hong Kie Thio et al - Report (64.8 MB)

PEER 2010/107 - Performance and Reliability of Exposed Column Base Plate Connections for Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Ady Aviram, Bozidar Stojadinovic, Armen Der Kiureghian - Report (4.4 MB)

PEER 2010/106 - Verification of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Computer Programs

Patricia Thomas, Ivan Wong, Norman Abrahamson - Report (4.7 MB)

PEER 2010/105 - Structural Engineering Reconnaissance of the April 6, 2009, Abruzzo, Italy, Earthquake, and Lessons Learned

M. Selim Günay, Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (7.8 MB)

PEER 2010/104 - Simulating the Inelastic Seismic Behavior of Steel Braced Frames Including the Effects of Low-Cycle Fatigue

Yuli Huang, Stephen A. Mahin. June 2010 - Report (11.2 MB)

PEER 2010/103 - Post-Earthquake Traffic Capacity of Modern Bridges in California

Vesna Terzic, Bozidar Stojadinovc - Report (14 MB)

PEER 2010/102 - Analysis of Cumulative Absolute Velocity (CAV) and JMA Instrumental Seismic Intensity (I _JMA) Using the PEER-NGA Strong Motion Database

Kenneth W. Campbell, Yousef Bozorgnia - Report (1.7 MB)

PEER 2010/101 - Rocking Response of Bridges on Shallow Foundations

Jose A. Ugalde, Bruce L. Kutter, Boris Jeremic - Report (2.7 MB)

PEER 2009/109 - Simulation and Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment of Self-Centering Post-Tensioned Concrete Bridge Systems

Won K. Lee and Sarah L. Billington - Report (4.3 MB)

PEER 2009/108 - PEER Lifelines Geotechnical Virtual Data Center

J. Carl Stepp, Daniel J. Ponti, Loren L. Turner, Jennifer N. Swift, Sean Devlin, Yang Zhu, Jean Benoit, and John Bobbitt - Report (4.9 MB)

Appendix 2
- Appendix2_cosmosDIGGS.zip (148 KB)

Appendix 3
- Appendix3_metaDIGGS.zip (3.4 MB)

PEER 2009/03 - The Integration of Experimental and Simulation Data in the Study of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Systems Including Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction

Matthew Dryden and Gregory L. Fenves - Report (2.9 MB)

PEER 2009/107 - Experimental and Computational Evaluation of Current and Innovative In-Span Hinge Details in Reinforced Concrete Box-Girder Bridges: Part 2: Post-Test Analysis and Design Recommendations

Matias A. Hube and Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (1.8 MB)

PEER 2009/106 - Shear Strength Models of Exterior Beam-Column Joints without Transverse Reinforcement

Sangjoon Park and Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (3.2 MB)

PEER 2009/105 - Reduced Uncertainty of Ground Motion Prediction Equations through Bayesian Variance Analysis

Robb Eric S. Moss - Report (776 KB)

PEER 2009/104 - Advanced Implementation of Hybrid Simulation

Andreas H. Schellenberg, Stephen A. Mahin, Gregory L. Fenves - Report (10.7 MB)

PEER 2009/02 - Improving Earthquake Mitigation through Innovations and Applications in Seismic Science, Engineering, Communication, and Response

Proceedings of a U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop June 29–July 1, 2009 Irvine, California - Report (24.9 MB)

PEER 2009/103 - Performance Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Frames

T. Y. Yang, Jack P. Moehle and Bozidar Stojadinovic - Report (5.6 MB)

PEER 2009/102 - Liquefaction and Nonliquefaction Case Histories from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake

Robb Eric S. Moss, Robert Kayen, Liyuan Tong, Songyu Liu, Guojun Cai, and Jiaer Wu - Report (14.9 MB)

PEER 2009/101 - Report of the First Joint Planning Meeting for the Second Phase of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering

Convened by the NEES Consortium, Inc. and Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention - Report (30 MB)

PEER 2009/01 - Evaluation of Ground Motion Selection and Modification Methods: Predicting Median Interstory Drift Response of Buildings

PEER Ground Motion Selection and Modification Working Group - Curt B. Haselton, Editor - Report (9.9 MB)

Appendix C
- GroundMotionSets&Results.ZIP (11 MB)
- SPECTRA.zip (156 MB)

Appendix D
- PEER-GMSM_AppendixD.xls (2.3 MB)

PEER 2008/104 - Experimental and Analytical Study of the Seismic Performance of Retaining Structures

Linda Al Atik and Nicholas Sitar - Report (5.16 MB)

PEER 2008/103 - Experimental and Computational Evaluation of Current and Innovative In-Span Hinge Details in Reinforced Concrete Box-Girder Bridges - Part 1: Experimental Findings and Pre-Test Analysis

Matias A. Hube, Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (6.6 MB)

PEER 2008/102 - Modeling of Unreinforced Masonry Infill Walls Considering In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Interaction

Stephen Kadysiewski, Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (2.6 MB)

PEER 2008/101 - Seismic Performance Objectives for Tall Buildings

William T. Holmes, Charles Kircher, William Petak, Nabih Youssef - Report (5.3 MB)

PEER 2008/10 - Technical Manual for Strata

Albert R. Kottke, Ellen M. Rathje - Report (4.2 MB)

PEER 2008/09 - NGA Model for Average Horizontal Component of Peak Ground Motion and Response Spectra

Brian S.-J. Chiou, Robert R. Youngs, AMEC Geomatrix - Report (3.7 MB)

PEER 2008/08 - Toward Earthquake-Resistant Design of Concentrically Braced Steel-Frame Structures

Patxi Uriz, Stephen A. Mahin - Report (17.36 MB)

PEER 2008/07- Using OpenSees for Performance-Based Evaluation of Bridges on Liquefiable Soils

Steven L. Kramer, Pedro Arduino, HyungSuk Shin - Report (22.7 MB)

PEER 2008/06 - Shaking Table Tests and Numerical Investigation of Self-Centering Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

Hyung IL Jeong, Junichi Sakai, Stephen A. Mahin - Report (14.3 MB)

PEER 2008/05 - Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Design Evaluation Procedure for Bridge Foundations Undergoing Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Ground Displacement

Christian A. Ledezma, Jonathan D. Bray - Report (15.1 MB)

PEER 2008/04 - Benchmarking of Nonlinear Geotechnical Ground Response Analysis Procedures

Jonathan P. Stewart, Annie On-Lei Kwok, Youssef M.A. Hashash, Neven Matasovic, Robert Pyke, Zhiliang Wang, Zhaohui Yang - Report (4.14 MB)

PEER 2008/03 - Guidelines for Nonlinear Analysis of Bridge Structures in California

Ady Aviram, Kevin R. Mackie, Bozidar Stojadinovic - Report (12.6 MB)

Additional Files:
- Ground_Motions.zip (zip file, 17.04 MB)
- OpenSees_Input.zip (zip file, 29.49 MB)
- SAP2000_Input.zip (zip file, 293 KB)

PEER 2008/02 - Treatment of Uncertainties in Seismic-Risk Analysis of Transportation Systems

Evangelos Stergiou, Anne S. Kiremidjian - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2008/01 - Seismic Performance Objectives for Tall Buildings

William T. Holmes, Charles Kircher, William Petak, Nabih Youssef - Report (1 MB)

PEER 2007/101 - Generalized Hybrid Simulation Framework for Structural Systems Subjected to Seismic Loading

Tarek Elkhoraibi and Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (9.7 MB)

PEER 2007/100 - Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Including Effects of Masonry Infill Walls

Alidad Hashemi and Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (11.1 MB)

PEER 2007/12 - An Assessment to Benchmark the Seismic Performance of a Code-Conforming Reinforced Concrete Moment-Frame Building

Curt B. Haselton, Christine A. Goulet, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, James L. Beck, Gregory G. Deierlein, Keith A. Porter, Jonathan P. Stewart, Ertugrul Taciroglu - Report (5.44 MB)

PEER 2007/11 - Bar Buckling in Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

Wayne A. Brown, Dawn E. Lehman, John F. Stanton - Report (29.8 MB)
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PEER 2007/10 - Computational Modeling of Progressive Collapse in Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures

Mohamed M. Talaat, Khalid M. Mosalam - Report (5.3 MB)

PEER 2007/09 - Integrated Probabilistic Performance-Based Evaluation of Benchmark Reinforced Concrete Bridges

Kevin R. Mackie, John-Michael Wong, Bozidar Stojadinovic - Report (6.7 MB)

PEER 2007/08 - Assessing Seismic Collapse Safety of Modern Reinforced Concrete Moment-Frame Buildings

Curt B. Haselton, Gregory G. Deierlein - Report (6.2 MB)

PEER 2007/07 - Performance Modeling Strategies for Modern Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

Michael P. Berry, Marc O. Eberhard - Report (7.7 MB)

PEER 2007/06 - Development of Improved Procedures for Seismic Design of Buried and Partially Buried Structures

Linda Al Atik, Nicholas Sitar - Report (4.8 MB)

PEER 2007/05 - Uncertainty and Correlation in Seismic Risk Assessment of Transportation Systems

Renee G. Lee, Anne S. Kiremidjian - Report (3.21 MB)

PEER 2007/04 - Numerical Models for Analysis and Performance-Based Design of Shallow Foundations Subjected to Seismic Loading

Sivapalan Gajan, Tara Hutchinson, Bruce Kutter, Prishati Raychowdhury, José Ugalde, Jonathan Stewart - Report (7.1 MB)

PEER 2007/03 - Beam-Column Element Model Calibrated for Predicting Flexural Response Leading to Global Collapse of RC Frame Buildings

Curt B. Haselton, Abbie B. Liel, Sarah Taylor Lange, Gregory G. Deierlein - Report (8.75 MB)

PEER 2007/02 - Campbell-Bozorgnia NGA Ground Motion Relations for the Geometric Mean Horizontal Component of Peak and Spectral Ground Motion Parameters

Kenneth W. Campbell, Yousef Bozorgnia - Report (6.8 MB)

PEER 2007/01 - Boore-Atkinson NGA Ground Motion Relations for the Geometric Mean Horizontal Component of Peak and Spectral Ground Motion Parameters

David M. Boore, Gail M. Atkinson - Report (16.2 MB)

PEER 2006/12 - Societal Implications of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Peter J. May - Report (500 KB)

PEER 2006/11 - Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis Using Advanced Ground Motion Intensity Measures, Attenuation Relationships, and Near-Fault Effects

Sashi K. Kunnath - Report (6.2 MB)

PEER 2006/10 - Application of the PEER PBEE Methodology to the I-880 Viaduct

Sashi K. Kunnath - Report (4.8 MB)

PEER 2006/09 - Quantifying Economic Losses from Travel Forgone Following a Large Metropolitan Earthquake

J. Moore II, S. Cho, Y. Fan, S. Werner - Report (864 KB)

PEER 2006/08 - Vector-Valued Ground Motion Intensity Measures for Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis

J. Baker, C. Cornell - Report (4.2 MB)

PEER 2006/07 - Analytical Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Walls for Predicting Flexural and Coupled– Shear-Flexural Responses

K. Orakcal, L. Massone, J. Wallace - Report (4.3 MB)

PEER 2006/06 - Nonlinear Analysis of a Soil-Drilled Pier System under Static and Dynamic Axial Loading

G. Wang, N. Sitar - Report (11.5 MB)

PEER 2006/05 - Advanced Seismic Assessment Guidelines Advanced Seismic Assessment Guidelines

P. Bazzurro, C. Cornell, C. Menun, M. Motahari, N. Luco - Report (1.2 MB)

PEER 2006/04 - Probabilistic Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structural Components and Systems

T-H. Lee, K. Mosalam - Report (2.2 MB)

PEER 2006/03 - Performance of Lifelines Subjected to Lateral Spreading

S. Ashford, T. Juirnarongrit - Report (19.2 MB)

PEER 2006/02 - Highway Demonstration Project

A. Kiremidjian, J.Moore, Y. Yue Fan, N. Basoz, O. Yazali, M. Williams - Report (9.4 MB)

PEER 2006/01 - Bracing Berkeley: A Guide to Seismic Safety on the UC Berkeley Campus

M. Comerio, S. Tobriner, and A. Fehrenkamp - Report (21.2 MB)

PEER 2005/16 - Seismic Response and Reliability of Electrical Substation Equipment and Systems

J. Song, A. Kiureghian, J. Sackman - Report (4.2 MB)

PEER 2005/15 - CPT-Based Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation

R. Moss, R. Seed, R. Kayen, J. Stewart, A. Kiureghian - Repor (1.3 MB)

PEER 2005/14 - Workshop on Modeling of Nonlinear Cyclic Load- Deformation Behavior of Shallow Foundations

B. Kutter, G. Martin, T. Hutchinson, C. Harden, S. Gajan, J. Phalen - Report (5.1 MB)

PEER 2005/13 - Stochastic Characterization and Decision Bases under Time-Dependent Aftershock Risk in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

G. Yeo, C. Cornell - Report (7 MB)

PEER 2005/12 - PEER Testbed Study on a Laboratory Building: Exercising Seismic Performance Assessment

M. Comerio, Editor - Report (2.7 MB)

PEER 2005/11 - Van Nuys Hotel Building Testbed Report: Exercising Seismic Performance Assessment

H. Krawinkler, Editor - ReportB (3.1 M)

PEER 2005/10 - First NEES/E-Defense Workshop on Collapse Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

- Report (66 MB)

PEER 2005/09 - Test Applications of Advanced Seismic Assessment Guidelines

J. Maffei, K. Telleen, D. Mohr, W. Holmes, Y. Nakayama - Report (6.8 MB)

PEER 2005/08 - Damage Accumulation in Lightly Confined Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

R. Ranf, J. Nelson, Z. Price, M. Eberhard, J. Stanton - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2005/07 - Experimental and Analytical Studies on the Seismic Response of Freestanding and Anchored Laboratory Equipment

D. Konstantinidis, N.Makris - Report (12.1 MB)

PEER 2005/06 - Global Collapse of Frame Structures under Seismic Excitations

L. Ibarra and H. Krawinkler - Report (4.4 MB)

PEER 2005/05 - Performance Characterization of Bench- and Shelf-Mounted Equipment

S. Chaudhuri and T. Hutchinson - Report (31.8 MB)

PEER 2005/04 - Numerical Modeling of the Nonlinear Cyclic Response of Shallow Foundations

C. Harden, T. Hutchinson, G. Martin, B. Kutter - Report (5.7 MB)

PEER 2005/03 - A Taxonomy of Building Components for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

K. Porter - Report (788 KB)

PEER 2005/02 - Fragility Basis for California Highway Overpass Bridge Seismic Decision Making

K. Mackie and B. Stojadinovic - Report (8.7 MB) - Abstrac

PEER 2005/01 - Empirical Characterizations of Site Conditions on Strong Ground Motion

J. Stewart, Y. Choi, and R. Graves - Report (6.2 MB)

PEER 2004/09 - Electrical Substation Equipment Interaction: Experimental Rigid Conductor Studies

C. Stearns and A. Filiatrault - Report (39 MB)

PEER 2004/08 - Seismic Qualification and Fragility Testing of Line Break 550-kV Disconnect Switches

S. Takhirov, G. Fenves, and E. Fujisaki - Report (52 MB)

PEER 2004/07 - Ground Motions for Earthquake Simulator Qualification of Electrical Substation Equipment

S. Takhirov, G. Fenves, E. Fujisaki, and D. Clyde - Report (3 MB)

PEER 2004/06 - Performance-Based Regulation and Regulatory Regimes

P. May and C. Koski - Report (522 KB)

PEER 2004/05 - Performance-Based Seismic Design Concepts and Implementation Proceedings of the International Workshop Bled, Slovenia, June 28 - July 1, 2004

edited by P. Fajfar and H. Krawinkler - Report (14 MB)

PEER 2004/04 - Seismic Performance of an Instrumented Tilt-up Wall Building

J. Anderson, V. Bertero, M. Kargahi, and M. Al Satari - Report (36 MB)

PEER 2004/03 - Evaluation and Application of Concrete Tilt-up Assessment Methodologies

T. Graf and J. Malley - Report (15 MB)

PEER 2004/02 - Analytical Investigations of New Methods for Reducing Residual Displacements of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

J. Sakai and S. Mahin - Report (28 MB)

PEER 2004/01 - Seismic Performance of Masonry Buildings and Design Implications

K.T. Tokoro, J. Anderson, and V. Bertero - Report (14 MB)

PEER 2003/18 - Performance Models for Flexural Damage in Reinforced Concrete Columns

M. Berry, M. Eberhard - Report (1.7 MB)

PEER 2003/17 - Predicting Earthquake Damage in Older Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints

C. Pagni, L. Lowes - Report (16 MB)

PEER 2003/16 - Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Design of Bridges

K. Mackie , B. Stojadinovic - Report (2.5 MB) - Appendices C&D

PEER 2003/15 - Seismic Demands for Non-deteriorating Frame Structures and Their Dependence on Ground Motions

R. Medina, H Krawinkler - Report (3.1 MB)

PEER2003/14 - Finite Element Reliability and Sensitivity Methods for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

T. Haukaas, A. Der Kiureghian - Report (2.6 MB)

PEER2003/13 - Effects of Connection Hysteretic Degradation on the Seismic Behavior of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

J. Rodgers, S. Mahin - Report (10 MB)

PEER2003/12 - Implementation Manual for the Seismic Protection of Laboratory Contents: Format and Case Studies

W. Holmes, M. Comerio - Report (6 MB)

PEER2003/11 - The Fifth U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

Report (13 MB)

PEER2003/10 - A Beam-Column Joint Model for Simulating the Earthquake Response of Reinforced Concrete Frames

L. Lowes, N. Mitra, A. Altoontash - Report (733 KB)

PEER2003/09 - Sequencing Repairs after an Earthquake:An Economic Approach

M. Casari, S. Wilkie - Report (172 KB)

PEER2003/08 - A Technical Framework for Probability-Based Demand and Capacity Factor Design (DCFD) Seismic Formats

F. Jalayer, C. Allin Cornell - Report (872 KB)

PEER2003/07 - Uncertainty Specification and Propagation for Loss Estimation Using FOSM Method

J. Baker, C. Allin Cornell - Report (962 KB)

PEER 2003/06 - Performance of Circular Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns Under Bidirectional Earthquake Loading

M. Hachem, S. Mahin, J. Moehle - Report (23 MB)

PEER 2003/05 - Response Assessment of Nonstructural Building Elements

S. Taghavi, E. Miranda - Report (1.4 MB)

PEER 2003/04 - Experimental Assessment of Columns with Short Lap Splices Subjected to Cyclic Loads

M. Melek, J. Wallace, J. Conte - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2003/03 - Probabilistic Response Assessment for Building-Specific Loss Estimation

E. Miranda, H. Aslani - Report (552 KB)

PEER 2003/02 - Software Framework for Collaborative Development of Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis Program

J. Peng, K. Law - Report (2.5 MB)

PEER 2003/01- Shake Table Tests and Analystical Studies on the Gravity Load Collapse of Reinforced Concrete Frames

K. Elwood, J. Moehle - Report (15 MB)

PEER 2002/24 - Performance of Beam to Column Bridge Joints Subjected to a Large Velocity Pulse

N. Gibson, A. Filiatrault, S. Ashford - Report (8 MB)

PEER 2002/23 - Effects of Large Velocity Pulses on Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

G. Orozco, S. Ashford - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2002/22 - Characterization of Large Velocity Pulses for LaboratoryTesting

K. Cox, S. Ashford - Report (989 KB)

PEER 2002/21 - The Fourth U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

22–24 October 2002 Toba, Japan - Report (15 MB)

PEER 2002/20 - Barriers to Adoption and Implementation of PBEE Innovations

Peter May - Report (407 KB)

PEER 2002/19 - Economic-Engineering Integrated Models for Earthquakes: Socioeconomic Impacts

P. Gordon, J. Moore II, H. Richardson - Report (1 MB)

PEER 2002/18 - Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Building Exterior Joints with Substandard Details

C. Pantelides, J. Hansen, J. Nadauld, L. Reaveley - Report (5 MB)

PEER 2002/17 - Structural Characterization and Seismic Response Analysis of a Highway Overcrossing Equipped with Elastomeric Bearings and Fluid Dampers: A Case Study

N. Makris, J. Zhang - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2002/16 - Estimation of Uncertainty in Geotechnical Properties for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

A. Jones, S. Kramer, P. Arduino - Report (1 MB)

PEER 2002/15 - Seismic Behavior of Bridge Columns Subjected to Various Loading Patterns

A. Esmaeily-Gh., Y. Xiao - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2002/14 - Inelastic Seismic Response of Extended Pile Shaft Supported Bridge Structures

T. Hutchison, R. Boulanger, Y. Chai, I. Idriss - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2002/13 - Probabilistic Models and Fragility Estimates for Bridge Components and Systems

P. Gardoni, A. Der Kiureghian, K. Mosalam - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2002/12 - Effects of Fault Dip and Slip Rake on Near-Source Ground Motions: Why Chi-Chi Was a Relatively Mild M7.6 Earthquake

B. Aagaard, J. Hall, T. Heaton - Report (6 MB)

PEER 2002/11 - Analytical and Experimental Study of Fiber-Reinforced Strip Isolators

J. Kelly and S. Takhirov - Report (5 MB)

PEER 2002/10 - Centrifuge Modeling of Settlement and Lateral Spreading with Comparisons to Numerical Analysis

S. Gajan, B. Kutter - Report (7 MB)

PEER 2002/09 - Documentation and Analysis of Field Case Histories of Seismic Compression during the 1994 Northridge, CA Earthquake

J. Stewart, P. Smith, D. Whang, J. Bray - Report (7 MB)

PEER 2002/08 - Component Testing, Stability Analysis and Characterization of Buckling-Restrained Unbonded Braces™

C. Black, N. Makris, I. Aiken - Report (5 MB)

PEER 2002/07 - Seismic Performance of Pier-Wharf Connections

C. Roder, R. Graff, J. Soderstrom, J. Yoo - Report (4 MB)

PEER 2002/06 - The Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis for Evaluation of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Decisions

R. Zerbe, A. Falit-Baiamonte - Report (648 KB)

PEER 2002/05 - Guidelines, Specifications, and Seismic Performance Characterization of Nonstructural Building Components and Equipment

A. Filiatrault, C. Christopoulos, C. Stearns - Report (4 MB)

PEER 2002/04 - Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Lifelines Program: Invited Workshop on Archiving and Web Dissemination of Geotechnical Data

4–5 October 2001 Richmond, California - Report (50 MB)

PEER 2002/03 - Investigation of Sensitivity of Building Loss Estimates to Major Uncertain Variables for the Van Nuys Testbed

K. Porter, J. Beck, R. Shaikhutdinov - Report (868 KB)

PEER 2002/02 - The Third U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

August 16-18 Seattle WA - Report (13 MB)

PEER 2002/01- Nonstructural Loss Estimation: The UC Berkeley Case Study

M. Comerio, J. Stallmeyer - Report (29 MB)

PEER 2001/16 - Statistics of SDF-System Estimate of Roof Displacement for Pushover Analysis of Buildings

A. Chopra, R. Goel, C. Chintanapakdee - Report (1.3 MB)

PEER 2001/15 - Damage to Bridges during the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake

R. Ranf, M. Eberhard, M. Berry - Report (1 MB)

PEER 2001/14 - Rocking Response of Equipment Anchored to a Base Foundation

N. Makris, C. Black - Report (4 MB)

PEER 2001/13 - Modeling Soil Liquefaction Hazards for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

S. Kramer, A. Elgamal - Report (8 MB)

PEER 2001/12 - Development of Geotechnical Capabilities in OpenSees

B. Jeremic - Report (3 MB)

PEER 2001/11 - Analytical and Experimental Study of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators

J. Kelly, S. Takhirov - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2001/10 - Amplification Factors for Spectral Acceleration in Active Regions

J. Stewart, A. Liu, Y. Choi, M. Baturay - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2001/09 - Ground Motion Evaluation Procedures for Performance-Based Design

J. Stewart, S. Chiou, J. Bray, R. Graves, P. Somerville, N. Abrahamson - Report (10 MB)

PEER 2001/08 - Experimental and Computational Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Beam-Column Connections for Seismic Performance

C. Naito, J. Moehle, K. Mosalam - Report (11 MB)

PEER 2001/07 - The Rocking Spectrum and the Shortcomings of Design Guidelines

N.Makris, D. Konstantinidis - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2001/06 - Development of an Electrical Substation Equipment Performance Database for Evaluation of Equipment Fragilities

T. Anagnos - Report (432 KB)

PEER 2001/05 - Stiffness Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators

H. Tsai, J. Kelly - Report (4 MB)

PEER 2001/04 - Organizational and Societal Considerations for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

P. May - Report (360 KB)

PEER 2001/03 - A Modal Pushover Analysis Procedure to Estimate Seismic Demands for Buildings: Theory and Preliminary Evaluation

A. Chopra, R. Goel - Report (1 MB)

PEER 2001/02 - Seismic Response Analysis of Highway Overcrossings Including Soil-Structure Interaction

J. Zhang and N. Makris - Report (4 MB)

PEER 2001/01- Experimental Study of Large Seismic Steel Beam-to-Column Connections

E. Popov, S. Takhirov - Report (3 MB)

PEER 2000/10 - The Second U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

11–13 Sept 2000 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan - Report (25 MB)

PEER 2000/09 - Structural Engineering Reconnaissance of the August 17, 1999 Earthquake: Kocaeli (Izmit), Turkey

H. Kenneth, J. Elwood, A. Whittaker, K. Mosalam, J. Wallace, J. Stanton - Report (12 MB)

PEER 2000/08 - Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns Having Varying Aspect Ratios and Varying Lengths of Confinement

A. Calderone, D. Lehman, J. Moehle - Report (14 MB)

PEER 2000/07 - Cover-Plate and Flange-Plate Reinforced Steel Moment-Resisting Connections

T. Kim, A. Whittaker, A. Gilani, V. Bertero, S. Takhirov - Report (27 MB)

PEER 2000/06 - Seismic Evaluation and Analysis of 230-kV Disconnect Switches

A. Gilani, A. Whittaker, G. Fenves, C. Chen, H. Ho, E. Fujisaki - Report (11 KB)

PEER 2000/05 - Performance-Based Evaluation of Exterior Reinforced Concrete Building Joints for Seismic Excitation

C. Clyde, C. Pantelides, L. Reaveley - Report (2 MB)

PEER 2000/04 - An Evaluation of Seismic Energy Demand: An Attenuation Approach

C. Chou, C. Uang - Report (3 MB)

PEER 2000/03 - Framing Earthquake Retrofitting Decisions: The Case of Hillside Homes in Los Angeles

D. von Winterfeldt, N. Roselund, A. Kitsuse - Report (1.5 MB)

PEER 2000/02 - U.S. Japan Workshop on the Effects of Near-Field Earthquake Shaking March 20–21, 2000 San Francisco, California

A. Whittaker - Report (16 MB)

PEER 2000/01 - Further Studies on Seismic Interaction in Interconnected Electrical Substation Equipment

A. Der Kiureghian, K. Hong, J. Sackman - Report (2.3 MB)

PEER 1999/14 - Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of 230-kV Porcelain Transformer Bushings

A. Gilani, A. Whittaker, G. Fenves, E. Fujisaki - Report (13 MB)

PEER 1999/13 - Building Vulnerability Studies: Modeling and Evaluation of Tilt-up and Steel Reinforced Concrete Buildings

J. Wallace, J. Stewart, A. Whittaker - Report (4 MB)

PEER 1999/12 Rehabilitation of Nonductile RC Frame Building Using Encasement Plates and Energy-Dissipating Devices

M. Sasani, V. Bertero, J. Anderson - Report (22 MB)

PEER 1999/11 - Performance Evaluation Database for Concrete Bridge Componentsand Systems under Simulated Seismic Loads

Y. Hose, F. Seible - Report (38 MB)

PEER 1999/10 - U.S. Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures

September 13, 1999 Maui, Hawaii - Report (18 MB)

PEER 1999/09 - Performance Improvement of Long Period Building Structures Subjected to Severe Pulse-Type Ground Motions

J. Anderson, V. Bertero, R. Bertero - Report (8.5 MB)

PEER 1999/08 Envelopes for Seismic Response Vectors

C. Menun, A. Der Kiureghian - Report (14 MB)

PEER 1999/07 - Documentation of Strengths and Weaknesses of Current Computer Analysis Methods for Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Members

W. Cofer - Report (454 KB)

PEER 1999/06 - Rocking Response and Overturning of Anchored Equipment under Seismic Excitations

N. Makris, J. Zhang - Report (2 MB)

PEER 1999/05 - Seismic Evaluation of 550 kV Porcelain Transformer Bushings

A. Gilani, A. Whittaker, G. Fenves, E. Fujisaki - Report (4 MB)

PEER 1999/04 - Adoption and Enforcement of Earthquake Risk-Reduction Measures

P. May, R. Burby, T. Feeley, R. Wood - Report (328 KB)

PEER 1999/03 - Task 3: Characterization of Site Response General Site Categories

A. Rodríguez-Marek, J. Bray, N. Abrahamson - Report (706 KB)

PEER 1999/02 - Capacity-Demand-Diagram Methods for Estimating Seismic Deformation of Inelastic Structures: SDF Systems

A. Chopra, R. Goel - Report (526 KB)

PEER 1999/01 - Interaction in Interconnected Electrical Substation Equipment Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motions

A. Der Kiureghian, J. Sackman, K.Hong - Report (7 MB)

PEER 1998/08 - Behavior and Failure Analysis of a Multiple-Frame Highway Bridge in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake

G. Fenves, M. Ellery - Report (4 MB)

PEER 1998/07 - Empirical Evaluation of Inertial Soil-Structure Interaction Effects

J. Stewart, R. Seed, G. Fenves - Report (2 MB)

PEER 1998/06 - Effect of Damping Mechanisms on the Response of Seismically Isolated Structures

N. Makris, S. Chang - Report (496 KB)

PEER 1998/05 - Rocking Response and Overturning of Equipment Under Horizontal Pulse-Type Motions

N. Makris, Y. Roussos - Report (1.4 MB)

PEER 1998/04 - Defining the Links Between Planning, Policy Analysis, Economics and Earthquake Engineering - PEER Invitational Workshop Proceedings May 14-15, 1998

M. Comerio, P. Gordon - Report (320 KB)

PEER 1998/03 - Repair/Upgrade Procedures for Welded Beam to Column Connections

J. Anderson, X. Duan - Report (7 MB)

PEER 1998/02 - Seismic Evaluation of 196 kV Porcelain Transformer Bushings

A. Gilani, J. Chavez, G. Fenves, A. Whittaker - Report (5 MB)

PEER 1998/01 - Seismic Performance of Well-Confined Concrete Bridge Columns

D. Lehman, J. Moehle - Report (40 MB)